Manohar Joshi

MUMBAI: Manohar Joshi, a Shiv Sena veteran and former Maharashtra chief minister, is set to re-enter Parliament through Rajya Sabha even as his party is willing to concede its another seat to the NCP. The Sena has decided to field Mr Joshi in the March 28 biennial election for the Rajya Sabha. According to Sena sources, Mr Joshi was desperate to rehabilitate himself after he lost the last Lok Sabha election from his home turf. "He time and again requested the Sena chief Bal Thackeray to send...

MUMBAI: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi feels Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has inherited the streak of a "benevolent dictator" from his father, late Bal Thackeray even as he dismissed the "perception" that he has been sidelined in the party. "Yes, of course. It is the style of a benevolent dictator. That was Balasaheb's style. Uddhavji has also adopted the same style," Joshi, veteran Sena leader and former Maharashtra chief minister, told PTI in an...

Narendra Modi campaigned for him last fortnight, and political observers say Mumbai's north-central constituency is as good as in the bag for senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi. The Congress has fielded rookie Eknath Gaikwad, a minister of state for health in the Sushilkumar Shinde cabinet, against Mr Joshi and that too in the Sena's home turf in central Mumbai. Gaikwad's candidature was announced after much deliberation, in a constituency that has a huge dalit base and was once a Congress...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Minister Narayan Rane today took a dig at beleaguered Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi after the latter was forced to leave a Dussehra function following protests against him by his party's cadre. Slamming Joshi for his alleged greed, Rane, who is now a Congress leader and also Maharashtra's minister for industries, said that suffering humiliation was nothing new for the former Shiv Sena...

IMPHAL: Manipur has an important role to play in the successful implementation of India's 'Act East Policy', veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said today. Addressing a party workers meeting, he said, with the centre's policy looking at boosting ties with ASEAN and East Asian counterparts and Manipur neighbouring Myanmar, the people of the state should always be ready to participate to benefit economically. The 'Act East policy' was unveiled by...

PATNA: Veteran BJP leader and former Union Minister Murali Manohar Joshi today said Janata Parivar merger process would not pose any difficulty to the party. "The merger is yet to happen so there is not much to be said about it. It is just an effort by the Janata Parivar parties to grab power. It will not pose any difficulty to the BJP," Joshi said. The 81-year-old Lok Sabha member from Kanpur was speaking at a seminar on 'human unity in...

MUMBAI: Surfacing here five days after the Dussehra rally, where he was booed off the stage by Shiv Sena workers, Manohar Joshi today said the incident was "pre-planned". "I am annoyed with those who created the conspiracy. However, (Sena president) Uddhav Thackeray was not part of it," the former Lok Sabha speaker said. Terming what happened at the Dussehra rally -- his being booed off the dais by Sainiks angry at his recent utterances against party chief...

MUMBAI: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi feels Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has inherited the streak of a "benevolent dictator" from his father, late Bal Thackeray even as he dismissed the "perception" that he has been sidelined in the party. "Yes, of course. It is the style of a benevolent dictator. That was Balasaheb's style. Uddhavji has also adopted the same style," Joshi, veteran Sena leader and former Maharashtra chief minister, told PTI in an...

MUMBAI: Former Maharashtra chief minister and Sena leader Manohar Joshi today refuted media reports that the party leadership was upset with him for Sena's rout in Dadar in the recent municipal corporation elections and said there were several reasons for the loss. "I am personally not responsible. There could be many reasons for the defeat...No one from my party has blamed me. I am hearing these things only in media," he said, when asked to comment...

NEW DELHI: Unruly behaviour in the Lok Sabha reached its peak on Wednesday when a BSP member was manhandled by a Samajwadi Party member over political developments in UP that led to pandemonium in the House for a while. Taking a serious view of the incident in which BSP member Rashid Alvi was pushed and jostled by SP's Devendra Singh Yadav, speaker Manohar Joshi pulled him up saying his "misbehaviour" has lowered the dignity of the House. Mr Joshi was particularly pained that the incident took place when a...

MUMBAI: 'Make Mumbai better than Shanghai.' That was the message from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to an all-party meet convened to discuss the mega city's problems. For a while they all buried their political differences in presenting the issues being faced by the country's financial capital. As reported by ET earlier, the PM had convened an all-party meet to discuss the city's problems. The delegation included heavyweights like Sharad Pawar, Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, the BJP's...

KANPUR: Ahead of Murli Manohar Joshi's proposed visit to his constituency on April 18, several posters have emerged in the outskirts of the city declaring that the BJP MP has gone 'missing'. The posters, which also promise a reward on finding him, have been termed as "sponsored" by the Kanpur BJP unit. Describing the poster to be a ploy of rival parties, BJP's city unit chief Surendra Maithani said an FIR would be filed against the person who pasted the posters once his...

NEW DELHI: Veteran leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi were absent at a BJP function to mark its 35th foundation day. The two are members of the party's Margdarshak Mandal and former presidents of the party. Party president Amit Shah presided over the celebrations at the party office, with a special felicitation of former MP VK Malhotra, who has been with the party since its Jan Sangh days. While Joshi was in Kerala and...

KANPUR: With a day left for the crucial floor test in Bihar, BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi today claimed that Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi would be able to sail through the political crisis in Bihar. In Patna, Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary was today authorised to decide whether JD(U) or BJP would sit in the opposition gallery during the confidence vote on February 20. "Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi ...

NEW DELHI: BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi congratulated AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on his party's landslide victory in Delhi assembly polls. Sources said the two leaders had separately called up Kejriwal and lauded his stunning victory in the elections in which the BJP faced a humiliating defeat. After organisational changes in BJP, both Advani and Joshi are now part of the party's newly-formed...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended birthday greetings to Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh and his party colleague Murli Manohar Joshi . Modi spoke to Singh and greeted him on his birthday wishing him a long life filled with good health. The PM tweeted birthday greetings to Joshi, saying his scholarly zeal and contribution to public life were immense. "I wish him a long & healthy life," he posted on Twitter .

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Monday played down the meeting between Bal Thackeray and Sharad Pawar on Sunday and called it a 'politically insignificant' affair. "The two leaders are old friends and they met after a long time," senior Sena leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi told reporters here. "Nothing more should be read into the meeting," he added. Asked if there was a likelihood of the two parties coming together, Mr Joshi said, "the Sena will never leave...

PUNE: It's the game of upmanship. If the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray had not first promised free power to farmers, the ruling Democratic Front government would have. The state government is opposing the Sena chief's call for free power merely because they did not offer it first, Manohar Joshi, former Lok Sabha Speaker and former chief minister, said on Friday. Upholding his party chief's offer, Mr Joshi said this was easily possible, even essential, in view of the...

KANPUR: Senior BJP leader and Kanpur MP Murli Manohar Joshi today said the abandoned mills of National Textile Corporation could be again used for various industrial activities and for the purpose of training youths. The lands of the non-functional mills under NTC could be used for industrial activities, and a 'tool room' can be set up in one of the mills to provide training to youths for employment opportunities, Joshi said in a statement issued by...

KANPUR: The plan to get an upgraded madrasa inaugurated by BJP MP Murli Manohar Joshi has drawn irk from the Muslim community, who are demanding it to be cancelled. "The Muslims are upset over the inauguration by Joshi. I will meet city's Qazi soon to find a way out but so far there is no change in the plan," madrasa principal Mohammad Mehraj said. Al Jamiat-Ul-Nooria madrasa located in Shyam Nagar area of Joshi's constituency is being...